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Post May 24th, 2010, 12:11 pm

Anyone know the default path to date

I can't find it anywhere, I use Centos and apache 2 php 5 if that helps.
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Post May 24th, 2010, 12:11 pm

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Post May 24th, 2010, 1:59 pm

/bin/date
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Post May 24th, 2010, 8:29 pm

Thanks for the reply.

which date

worked perfectly for finding it, the path is:

/bin/date

Exactly right, thanks again.
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Post May 24th, 2010, 10:04 pm

BASH Code: [ Select ]
joebert@frankenstien:~$ whereis date
date: /bin/date /usr/share/man/man1/date.1.gz
joebert@frankenstien:~$
  1. joebert@frankenstien:~$ whereis date
  2. date: /bin/date /usr/share/man/man1/date.1.gz
  3. joebert@frankenstien:~$
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Post May 25th, 2010, 6:16 am

I use the locate command.
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Post May 25th, 2010, 7:13 am

I wondered what the difference between locate and whereis was, so I tried both. Apparently the difference is a few hundred lines of output from locate VS 1-3 lines of output from whereis. :shock:
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Post May 25th, 2010, 1:36 pm

They should be the same. Why would I want a truncated answer?
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Post May 25th, 2010, 2:21 pm

Well, for me locate gives me the path to anything and everything that has "date" in the directory or file names. Whereas whereis just gives me paths to binaries and manpages.

Am I missing a flag for locate or something ?
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Post May 25th, 2010, 3:10 pm

There are flags but I don't use them. I guess the flag that you would want is -l to limit the number of results.

locate -l 10 would give you 10 lines.
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